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The homeless shelter charity worker of the day stationed outside the Ocean Beach Safeway tonight was sort of half-heartedly singing Christmas carols while he held his sign and tried to keep warm as people ignored him on their way inside. But when I was in the baking aisle, a woman walked up to put some cash in his box and began singing along with him. She was harmonizing, and with her accompaniment his voice rose and together their song spread throughout the store. ”Let every heart prepare him room” they seemed to echo again and again. And I almost started to cry on the spot. Here I was bustling around getting ingredients for a Christmas dessert, still in a bad mood from all the annoying things that had happened at work earlier, and Christ, ever so gently was whispering, not only to me but to all of the Safeway shoppers and to all of creation, “I’m coming! Make room in your hearts and your lives for me, for my Kingdom!”
